Curriculum focus: identifies, interprets, and analyzes the use of figurative language (11.1.K3), uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions (11.1.4.K5), compares/contrasts themes in texts (11.1.4.K7b), compares/contrasts author's use of literary devices (11.1.4.K7k), uses paraphrasing and organizational skills to summarize underlying meaning of the text (11.1.4.K9e), analyzes and evaluates how an author's style work together to achieve purpose: irony, symbolism, tone, mood, imagery, allusion (11.1.4.K11c, d, e, f, h, and j), and analyzes contextual aspects of setting: historical, social, cultural (11.2.1.K2).
Root words for this week (root - definition - examples):
- chrom - color - chromosome, monochromatic, chromograph
- -cracy - rule by - democracy, aristocracy, bureaucrat
- esth/aesth - sensation or feeling - aesthetic, anesthesiology, kinesthetic
- flor - flower - flour, floral, Florida, fleur de lis
- plas/plast - to form - plasma, plastic, protoplasm
This week we'll continue on with our American Poetry unit. We'll begin with poets considering America's potential identity in the world. We'll then move on to Modernist and Surrealist perspectives and writing techniques. We'll wrap up the week with a look at how the Modernists and Surrealists influenced the later works of two more poets pondering America's potential identity. As we work through the week, we'll also continue our second semester Root Words unit and take care of last week's quiz.
- Mon: No school - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Tues: New root words, quiz on Friday. American Poetry - The Search for Identity, part 1. Study guide due by the end of the hour.
- Wed: Root Words quiz. American Poetry - begin reading poems on Modernism and Surrealism.
- Thurs: American Poetry - American Dreams - finish reading poems on Modernism and Surrealism. Study guide due by the end of the hour.
- Fri: Root Words quiz. American Poetry - The Search for Identity, part 2. Study guide due by the end of the hour.
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